Scuzz TV launch their huge ‘SLIPKNOT Week’ TONIGHT (Friday 4th Sept) and the Slipknot goodies will just keep on coming through to Wednesday 16th September!

The channel will be showing all the bands videos, live videos, viewer voted charts (from SCUZZ ONLINE polls running online all week), Slipknot ’live’ specials, behind the scenes and features on and from the bands previous albums and DVD releases. You will also be able to see repeats of the Slipknot Mayhem Festival coverage, Corey Taylor presenting the Scuzz Download coverage from ’08, band presented video countdowns, previous band interviews and of course a huge competition, running all week across the channel, to be a Slipknot ‘fan for life’, winning entrance to future UK Headline shows + albums!!!

This week, we handed the challenge of the iPod shuffle to Paolo, bassist with TRIVIUM. We think he get’s the award for the most mixed bag of tracks. What do you think??

Disdrive (Rework) by 80 Kidz
This band/group/DJs fucking rule. I randomly picked this album up at an HMV in Tokyo because the album art was weird and the title of the album was great (THIS IS MY SHIT.) I have honestly never listened to Electronica before this album and it has totally opened my eyes up to a whole new genre of music. This song has so much energy and the melodies rule!

Why It Hurts by Coroner
I swear every time I do one of these iPod shuffle things this band pops up. Maybe it’s because my iPod realizes how badass this band is and it’s a sign that I should listen to it more often. They have a lot of the same qualities that I love about Death, very avantgarde (thanks Webster’s dictionary), thrashy badass riffs, and those mid/high range screams that I love.

The Rocker by Thin Lizzy
Thin Lizzy are amazing, if you haven’t heard them you should be slapped. I am going to put them on my top 5 bands to party to list. They could make music about tough guy shit and then turn around and croon heart felt love songs. This is a must have music for any situation at a bar, drinking or fighting.

Nothing But The Best by Frank Sinatra
This man knew how to live, and when I hear this song I just want to snap my fingers and drink some fine whiskey. This song has the big band 40’s/50’s vibe and just sounds so huge and timeless even by today’s standards. If I could go back in time and party with anyone, it would be Frank Sinatra. He was truly rock ‘n roll in every way even before the genre was even coined. It’s so easy to get lost in his music and just lounge around all day with headphones on. This is also great flying music by the way, I don’t know what it is but it just chills me out and feel like I’m going on an adventure (Come Fly With Me – rock this on your next trip to your grandparents home.)

The Prophecy by Iron Maiden
This is such an amazing album! Some of my favorite Maiden songs like Evil That Men Do, The Clairvoyant, Can I Play with Madness… fuck it the whole album is great. Iron Maiden if you read this please play Seventh Son of a Seventh Son from start to finish some time!!!!!! Number one air bass band?? I think so.

Trivium return to the UK in March for a headline tour (tickets on sale NOW- check dates HERE) in support of current album SHOGUN. Click HERE for details of the album and to buy online.

Miss the previous What’s On Your iPod’s? Check them out at the links below:

SAMI WESTWOOD- ROADRUNNER UK
MARC MCKNIGHT- ATREYU
TYLER CONNELLY- THEORY OF A DEADMAN
FRED LECLERQC- DRAGONFORCE
JAMEY JASTA- HATEBREED
DALLAS STEADLUR- STEADLUR
JOEL FISHER- KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES
MARK MELICIA- THE PARLOR MOB
DAVE PYBUS- CRADLE OF FILTH
JON MILLER- DEVILDRIVER
MATTHEW LEONE- MADINA LAKE

JULIETTE LEWIS and those lovely folks over at MSN MUSIC are giving away a FREE track from Juliette’s upcoming album TERRA INCGONITA right now over on the MSN homepage.

If you CLICK HERE and check out the top headlines you will see the option to download the track- Noche Sin Fin- so what are you waiting for??

If you dig the track, you can pre-order the album online HERE, NOW!.

Juliette is on a UK tour next month. Dates are as below and tickets are on sale now…

Wed 21st Oct – Glasgow Garage
Thu 22nd Oct – Manchester Academy 2
Fri 23rd Oct – London Shepherds Bush Empire
Sat 24th Oct – Bristol Anson Rooms
Tue 8th Dec – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

On October 5th, HATEBREED release a brand new, self titled opus. The first video from the album was premiered this week on Headbangers Ball in the US of A, but us Brits don’t have to wait much longer to check it out!!

Head back here to Roadrunner UK on Monday September 7th and you will be able to check out the video for the brutal track IN ASHES THEY SHALL REAP.

The guys over at KERRANG were down at Reading / Leeds fest last weekend and they took some time with ALEXISONFIRE and MADINA LAKE for a bit of a catch up for the Kerrang! Podcast.

Both podcasts are now up on the site and you can check them out at the links below:

ALEXISONFIRE PODCAST

MADINA LAKE PODCAST

SLIPKNOT’S Corey Taylor was in the UK recently to present the Kerrang Awards and do the interview rounds about the upcoming 10th Anniversary release of the bands debut self titled album. We sat down with him as well and asked him about the past 10 years, playing Download, presenting the awards and what we can expect from the Special Edition of the album…

Does it feel like 10 years?

Well it certainly feels like ten years in my knees, let’s put it that way! And the fatty tissue in my back. [laughs] Honestly it doesn’t. To be honest, it doesn’t feel like we’ve been here for ten years, it feels like its been ten minutes. But you know, it’s all good!

What has been the main motivation/inspiration driving the band for so long?

I think the main inspiration that drives this band is just more, more, more, you know?! Whether its…. more doesn’t have to be a bad thing! We just keep pushing the boundaries of everything; musically, visually, artistically, emotionally. It’s, always been our goal to over do it, ‘cause not enough other bands do it to begin with, you know! So the main inspiration for this band is just to do it all.

Some of the 9 have been involved in side projects over the years – how important has this been to the longevity and creativity of the band, if at all?

I believe that the other projects are actually very important to the creativity of the band. I believe that, you know, the other bands allow us to bring things in, and they give us the courage to try different things, which is what this bands all about. And plus, just from you know a long longevity stand point, it gives our careers a chance to breathe, and it makes people excited for us to come back. So to me I think that the other projects really enhance what we do because it just shows you the potential that can be had when we all come back together as Slipknot.

Some critics (particularly back in the early years of the band) accused Slipknot of using the masks, costumes, and numbers as nothing more than a marketing ploy. Do you have anything to say to those people now?

Well, to all the critics who have kind of complained or been a little too harsh with their judgment of the band in their early years- Yeh, yeh, sure, the masks get attention but you know what? The music keeps them here, you know! If the music sucked we wouldn’t have as many fans as we do so in your face critics! And those pants look like crap on you! [laughs]

At Download 2009 you told the crowd that headlining at Donington Park was a dream come true and a career pinnacle for the band. Can Slipknot top that?

As far as toping, you know, headlining Download, oh man, that was, that was such a dream come true, that we’d have to play on Mars man! Honestly, I mean we’d have to headline Mars, with Devo or something, that would be the only thing that would make sense. [laughs] Or, just start over completely- with the next album all we do is play clubs, you know 200 seater clubs, and work our way back up. Headline some tent, at Download- like the disco tent, the silent disco tent by the way! Which is very weird to me, I will never understand that, it’s like watching zombies dance around in headphones, its creepy! {laughs] But that’s the only thing that would make sense to me, is to start over. Were do you go though? I mean, besides Hyde Park, or, you know, um, Glastonbury, I mean, its really kind of.. Download is, is, it’s the top of the mountain.

You recently hosted the Kerrang Awards. How was that?

Hosting the Kerrang Awards was such a blast! First of all, my suit was amazing! I don’t know if you’ve seen, but my suit was really stunning, and I mean that in the literal sense! Um, just getting to work with Scott [Anthrax] was just an absolute pleasure, you know! Me and Scott have know each other a long time, and we’ve gotten to be really close friends, and when we had the opportunity to do this together, we both jumped at it! We just loved watching the audience get more and more bombed and it was almost like we were the little ring leaders man! Plus, we had a lot of fun with filming the acceptance films when Slipknot won, and ahhh it was just such a great time man! I will remember that night for a very long time, or at least until the hangover wears off! [laughs]

The 10th anniversary special edition release will be available this month – what can fans expect from that, and what specifically are you most excited about sharing in that release?

Fans can expect several different little goodies from the 10th anniversary edition of the first album. It’s packed with a bunch of stuff man, its, uh, two discs full of music; a handful of tracks that have not been available before, a little DVD that Clown put together, that is all footage of ’99 and 2000! I’m really excited for people to see it you know. It’s a collectors piece, but it’s really for the fans you know, it was our way of saying thank you; we couldn’t have been here for ten years without them. And, you know, it’s not very often we get to show our appreciation like this, you know, so hopefully they really dig it because we loved putting it together.

You can pre-order the Special 10th Anniversary edition of the album and the limited deluxe box set THIS LOCATION.

We continue our series of interviews with the members of PORCUPINE TREE with this interview with drummer Gavin Harrison.

In the player below, he chats about how he got into playing the drums, how he became involved with Porcupine Tree, playing with King Crimson and the upcoming album THE INCIDENT (in stores September 14th).

If you missed Part 1 with keyboardist Richard, you can catch that HERE.

Pre order Pocupine Tree’s ‘The Incident’ HERE.

check back for part 3 with Colin on September 7th!!

This past weekend saw four Roadrunner artists kicking up a storm on various stages at the Reading / Leeds festival. We caught up with ALEXISONFIRE, ATREYU and MADINA LAKE for a bit of a chat and you can check it out now in the player below!

Alas due to the nature of the running order I (your web ed) was unable to catch up with KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES, however some killer stuff is coming your way SOON from those boys! Watch this space…

DRAGONFORCE have loaded two new episodes of Dragonforce TV to their website. In part 4 in the player below, Herman (shredder extrordinaire) and Vadim (keyboard maestro) fill us in on what to expect from the upcoming tour, which kicks off November (full dates and buy links HERE).

Check out the COMPETITIONS page of the site NOW to be in with a chance of winning some supremely awesome SLIPKNOT, PORCUPINE TREE and DRAGONFORCE goodies!

Up for grabs we have a RARE original 12″ picture disc of the debut album from Slipknot, plus signed artwork of the current album All Hope Is Gone, a special edition of the self titled debut and a rare keyring.

On the Porcupine Tree front we have some signed promo CD’s and stickers and as for DragonForce, some lucky winners will be decked out with swe on patches in time for the upcoming tour!!

So what you are still doing here? CLICK HERE TO ENTER NOW!!.